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Media Specialist position posted in the Aitkin Independent Age:

Aitkin School District #0001 has the following position available for the 2015-2016 school year: K-12 Library Media Specialist:
  • Shared position between two buildings
  • Salary and benefits are according to the Master Agreement
  • Application deadline: May 8, 2015
  • Send cover letter, resume, three current letters of recommendation, and five references with current cell phone numbers of references to: Mr. Jesse Peterson, Elementary Principal, Rippleside Elementary School, 225 2nd Ave SW, Aitkin, MN 56431

Click here for the listing on Aitkin Independent Age’s website.


Besides the recent job postings at Elk River Area School District here and here, we’ve also learned that they have multiple Elementary Technology Teacher positions.  Click here to see the complete postings.

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This weekend: Teen Lit Con 2015

Celebrate the end of the school year with a road trip to the Twin Cities for Teen Lit Con!  This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC, so you can bring your kids!  You don’t even have to register – just mark the date (Saturday, May 9th) on your calendar and show up!  Many great YA authors will be at Teen Lit Con that make the event well worth the trip!  Check out the Teen Lit Con site for more information.

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Best of the Best: Content Creation Apps

This year, we highlighted apps recommended by the American Association of School Librarians (AASL).  AASL considers these to be some of the Best Apps for Teaching & Learning.  As a recap, we’ve resorted them into their five categories and will feature one list per week for the next five weeks. 

For our final week, we focus on the Content Creation apps:

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Notability allows users to make their notes richer – through writing, drawing, and voice recordings!

Tellagami

 

Tellagami is a platform for making animated videos.

Shadow Puppet

 

Shadow Puppet lets users create a presentation and add their voice recording if they want!

Photo Editor by Aviary

 

Photo Editor by Aviary is full of touch-up tools, filters, stickers, and frames to add to your images.

RWT Timeline

 

RWT Timeline provides an interactive way for users to create timelines.

More Best of the Best Apps: STEM, Social Science, Books, and Organization & Management.

Fresh From the Garden: Food in color

Spring has sprung, and the fresh fruits and vegetables are about to spring from the garden!  Popular culture tells us that these foods are bland and boring, but gardeners – and Brittany Wright – know that this is anything but true!  Bored Panda features food photography by Wright, who takes photographs like these “to get people more familiar with what they eat by documenting how it changes.”  Check out the full post for more of this gorgeous photography.

Brittany Wright photography